avoid blasting the syslog with error messages from bad floppies. Both
tools have their own error reporting anyway (which could easily be
cluttered by the syslog output on your terminal).
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
it onto a bunch of floppies in a semi-intelligent way.
Useful for things like: tar cf - . | gzip -9 | fdwrite -d /dev/rfd0.1720 -v
Where it will keep asking for floppies until tar is done.